Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.